Commentary :: Education & Youth

Free E-Book: Anarchist Stories for Children

LOCAL Announcement :: Police State

Emergency Action - Save Tookie protest Monday Dec. 12

11 Dec 2005

by spreading the word from an email

If the gubernator does not grant Stanley Tookie Williams clemency on monday and the execution goes forward for midnight - December 13, we are organizing a car pool to drive to San Quentin for the protest. We will meet at 5:00pm on Monday, December 12, at the Government center parking lot on the corner of Ocean and Water.

LOCAL Commentary :: Civil & Human Rights

Sleep Depervation is Torture

News :: Arts & Culture

Bob Avakian on Richard Pryor

10 Dec 2005

by duko

Recently I was reading reports of police assaults on Black people and of Black people fighting against the police in Memphis and Miami. This called to mind a story I was told a while back. A rookie cop was riding in his police car with his veteran partner when a report came in that there was a Black man in the vicinity with a gun. As their car screeched around the corner, a young Black man suddenly appeared sprinting up an alley--into a dead end. "Shoot him!", the older cop screamed, "Go on, shoot him-- it's free!"
"It's free!" Think about that for a second. "It's free!" In other words, here's a chance that gets a pig to sweating and salivating with anticipation--a chance to "kill a nigger" with the already provided cover that a Black man--a Black man, any Black man--was reported in the area with a gun. This is an opportunity too good to pass up: "Go on, shoot him--it's free!"
Well, in this case, the rookie was not ready for that--perhaps he was one of those rare ones who joins a police force actually believing the "serve and protect" bullshit--

News :: Civil & Human Rights : Poverty & Urban Development

Sprouts: Katrina's Immediate Aftermath

10 Dec 2005

by Vinny Lombardo

This week's Sprouts is a documentary on the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Ten days after the storm, Vinny Lombardo, a radio producer from Santa Cruz, CA travelled to Houston, TX, and New Orleans, LA to speak with Katrina survivors displaced by the hurricane.

Review :: Alternative Media

Radical Publishing

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